AMD Ryzen 5 4600U vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4375 points
6449 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6163 points
8487 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3818 points
5818 points
52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points
5677 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

115.74 points
153.40 points
32% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.6 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

403rd of 1,089
223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 4600U vs Core i9-11950H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 4600U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Indeed, the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 4600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600U. A Ryzen 5 4600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-11950H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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